I spent most of my career designing production machinery for a manufacturer. I am sort of retired now and am trying to understand loads on concrete. If you are designing a elevated slab which has a few steel beams supporting it on columns to a footer, how do you figure the loads. You have the...
I am wondering why the inspector would want the beam pockets in residential construction grouted. The steel beams are set on a CMU wall. I was always taught the leave a 1/2 inch clearance on each side and an inch on the end. This inspector wants them grouted solid, I asked why and he took to the...
